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Outside the Hinchliffe Arms, Cragg Vale - ALC00785
Carriages await the mourners at Helen Hinchliffe's funeral, 1917.
Hand Loom Weaver - ALC00786
Possibly Jack-o-Bog Eggs, Wadsworth, the last hand loom weaver in the Calderdale area.
Jack Bridge Mill, in the Colden Valley - ALC00787
Jean Forrest Recalls
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Jack Bridge Mill was built in 1861 as a steam powered spinning mill with twin Lancashire boilers and a beam engine, all buildings being on one level. In 1862 a large weaving shed was added, at that time the largest in the valley…
Moss Lane - ALC00789
The house in the centre of the picture is Angeldale on Hangingroyd Lane. Moss Lane winds up the hillside to the Heptonstall road. Cross Lanes Chapel is on the extreme left of the picture. Back of photo dated 1956
Hebden Bridge - ALC00790
Looking towards Horsehold.
Parrock Head, Old Town, Hebden Bridge. - ALC00791
The Methodist chapel centre right and above it by the terraced houses the co-op. Lilywhite Postcard
Colden Valley Mills - ALC00793
Higher and Lower Lumb Mills, Lumb Bank in foreground
Midgehole - ALC00794
View from White Hill Nook. Postcard produced by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse
Unknown house - ALC00796
Possibly Cragg Hall grounds ?
Midgehole - ALC00798
Crimsworth Dean. Postcard. Addressed to Mrs F Eastwood, Ovenden sent to 'my dear mother' by Harold and Eve
Hebden Cottage. Hardcastle Crags - ALC00799
Postcard, addressed to Mrs Ada Helliwell, c/o address in Blackpool, sent by her sister Anne
Sandy Gate, Wadsworth - ALC00805
Postcard. Pencil note on back says circa 1880 - 1900 .
Lumb Mills, Colden Valley - ALC00806
Postcard. Handwritten note on bottom of postcard says 'oft have I wandered here in solitude, and gazed with rapture, upon the glorious surroundings - Chas (?)
Mytholm - ALC00808
Mytholm Hall in the foreground, with St James church behind, and Eaves Mill behind that. Heptonstall church is on the sky-line
River Hebden from West End Bridge, c1955 - ALC00810
In the centre the Old Bridge and Bridge Mill Chimney with Old Gate on the left. The buildings on the right fronted onto Bridge Gate but all have been demolished.
Lower Colden Valley - ALC00811
Lumb Bank at Top and below the chimney of the demolished Lower Lumb Mill.
Trestle Bridge, Blake Dean - ALC00812
"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…
Ragley from above Heptonstall - ALC00813
Back of photo says taken 1960
Foster Lane Bridge, Hebden Bridge - ALC00817
17th century bridge over Hebden Water.
Colden Valley - ALC00818
Postcard entitled "Golden Valley, Heptonstall", published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. The white building in the centre is Great Lear Ings Farm, the building extreme left is Little Lear Ings, and the cottages beyond are Knowl Top and Edge Hey Green.
Grange Mill Chimney - ALC00819
Grange Mill chimney was a towering landmark in Mytholmroyd until 1898 when it was demolished in spectacular style.
A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…
A newspaper report at the time stated: "Crowds gathered in Mytholmroyd in 1897 to watch the fall of a giant. As it tumbled the…
Jack Bridge Mill, Colden - ALC00820
Postcard, published by Lilywhite Ltd, Brighouse. Colden School is on the left hand side. The row of cottages in the foreground on the right are called High Street. Towards the left at the top of the picture is Highgate Chapel.